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N. May Karff

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N. May Karff

May Karff, the “queen of American chess,” was a dominant force in American women’s chess for over forty years. Karff made her mark in the traditionally male bastion of professional chess as the first woman champion of the United States in 1938, thereafter dominating the United States Women’s Open for decades.

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